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Apple Updates iOS to Fix PDF-Reading Security Vulnerability / iPhone Dev Team Has Tethered Jailbreak Out for Updated iOS / Pro and Unpaid Analysts Agree: iPod Sales to Drop 7.2-Percent Y-o-Y / Apple Shares Hit All-Time High Ahead of Anticipated New Products and 3Q Earnings / Delivery Times Drop to 1-to-3 Days Through Apple’s Site / Sears.com Accidentally Advertises 69-Dollar iPad (Cancels Orders) / AT&T Drops Refurbished iPhone 3GS Price to 9-Dollars with a 2-Year Contract / USITC Judge Issues Preliminary Ruling Saying HTC Violated 2 of 10 Apple Patents with Android Phones / Patent Expert Says USITC Ruling Against HTC Could Be Trouble for All Android Devices / Reuters: Apple Taps TSMC for Trial Run of A6 Processors / Citigroup Analyst Downgrades Best Buy on Weakness in TV Sales

Lion-Compatible Apps Showing Up in Mac App Store / All Things D: Secret Sources Say New MacBook Airs Due Late Next Week / Fortune: Analysts Expect Mac Sales of Between 3.8-Million and 4.6-Million Units / UK Recruiter Seeks Temporary iPhone Sales Staff for Apple to Start in Mid-August / Screenshot Shows iPhone 4 in Inventory System of Fry’s Electronics / Apple Pays Plaintiff in SKorean Case Over iOS Location Logging / Lodsys Sues Developers That Cross-Promote Applications Via In-App Purchase / Changes Come Midweek to US and International App Stores / Apple Updates Aperture 3 to Version 3.1.3 / NYT: Secret Source Says Amazon’s Trip to Tablettown Fraught with Trouble and Compromise

IDC Says Mac Takes Third in US Computer Sales for 2Q CY2011 / CNET: Resellers Drop Prices on MacBook Airs Ahead of Expected Refresh / iPhone Sales Expectations: Somewhere Between 15-Million and 20.25-Million Units / UBS Analyst: Apple 3Q Call May Show Impact of Nokia Settlement / Citi Analyst: Expect “Stellar Back Half” of Year for Apple and Its Shares / TUAW: Hints of Bluetooth Activation for Apple TV2 in iOS 5 beta / CNBC: An Actual Apple Television Could Hurt the Cable Industry / Retail Analyst: Apple Retail Accounts for 20% of Retail Sales Growth in States in 1Q CY2011 / Microsoft to Open 75 More Retail Stores in 2 or 3 Years / Apple Files Second Suit Against HTC to Go Along with Second USITC Complaint / Apple and Other Big Tech Companies Sued Over GPRS 3G Data Transfer Patents / Apple (Finally) Obtains iPhone4.com and WhiteiPhone.com / WSJ: Secret Sources Say Amazon Putting Out a Tablet and Two News Kindles By October / IDC: Barnes and Noble’s Nook Beats Amazon’s Kindle in Sales in 1Q CY2011 / Retrevo Survey Finds One-Third of iPhone 4 Respondents Things They Have 4G Service

Electronista: Leaked AT&T Memo May Indicate New iPhone for First Week of October / Piper Jaffray Analyst Thinks Next iPhone will Fly on All Four Carriers in the States / JP Morgan Analyst Thinks Apple 3Q FY 2011 Earnings Will Beat the Street’s Expectations (as Well as His Own) / Ticonderoga Analyst Ups iPad and iPhone Sales Expectations Ahead of 3Q FY2011 Earnings Call / Fortune: Pros and Amateurs See Between 6-Million and 9.5-Million iPads Sold in 3Q FY2011 / UBS Analyst Plays Story Time with Apple Televisions and “Genius Squads” / Reuters: Apple's Top Patent Attorney Quitting (Replacement Already Hired) / Samsung Seeks to Have Some of Apple’s External Lawyers Booted from Case / CNET: Rash of Malware Targeting Android Spotted Over Past Week / Canaccord Genuity: Android Phones Owners Prefer iPads Over Android Tablets / Intego’s VirusBarrier for iOS App Approved for the App Store / Pandora Rolling Out HTML5 Version of Service / HP Announced Second TouchPad with 4G-Connectivity and Faster Processor for This Summer Just Two Weeks After Starting Sales of the First One

Deutsche Bank Analyst: The Future of iOS is Sticky (in a Good Way) / Apple Gives Dev-Types iOS 5 beta 3 / Munster Eyes the State of Apple’s App Store Today / Apple Urges Mac Developers to Get Their Lion Apps in for Approval / Apple Updates iLife ’11 Apps / Apple Updates iDVD and iWeb / Judges in US and Canada Approve Nortel Networks Patent Auction Results / Apple Files Second Complaint Against HTC with USITC / IDC’s Bob O’Donnell Blows My Mind (and Not in a Good Way) / Hon Hai Dropping 1.6-Billion Dollars on Apple Authorized Reseller Shops in China / Jon Rubinstein Replaced as HP Global Head of webOS Platform

Canaccord Analyst Sees iPhone Losing More Market Share and Making More Money Through 2012 / Apple Outs Two News iPhone Ads Focusing on AirPlay and FaceTime / Delivery Times Down to 3-to-5 Business Days for iPad 2 in the States / IDC Ups Tablet Shipments Expectations for 2011 to 53.5-Million Units / Apple Sends Cease-and-Desist Letter to GetJar Over Use of Term “App Store” / The Washington Post: Source Says FTC and/or DoJ May Look Into Nortel Patent Purchase / Rumor: No More webOS for Sprint / Apple Loses Patent Case Over Downloadable Playlists / Borders Pulls “Buy” Button from iOS App

Apple Says App Store Downloads Top 15-Billion Mark / Apple Insider Sources Say Lion Launches Next Week (and Maybe a New MacBook Pro) / This Is My Next: Sources Says iPad HD Due Out This Fall / TWC Updates iPad App With More Channels and Blocks Jailbroken Devices / Report: Final Cut Pro 7 Licenses Said to Be Returning for Enterprise Users / Bloomberg Sources Say Apple Drops Cost of Entry for iAds / Apple Releases Canon Printer Driver Updates for Snow Leopard / Fortune: Apple v. Samsung v. Apple a Truly Confusing Brew / Citigroup Downgrades HTC on News of S3 Graphics Buy / Nintendo Plans to Keep Developing for its Own Hardware Only / Artist Hijacks Cameras on Macs in Apple Stores (and Gets a Visit from the Secret Service)

Global Equities Research: Macs Beating Windows Machines in Back-to-School Sales 4-to-1 / WSJ: Apple Ordering Parts for 25-Million Next-Gen iPhones to Be Delivered This Year / Analysts Catches Peter Pan/Tinkerbell Syndrome Around the iPhone and Sprint / FBR Capital Markets Analyst Hears (and Doubts) Rumors of Another iPad in 2011 / Nielsen: iPhones Most Used for Samrtphone Games / Apple Files New Complaints Against Samsung with USITC / Microsoft Sues Samsung for 15-Dollars Per Android Device Sold / HTC Buys S3 Graphics (and Possible Leverage Against Apple) / Judge Denies Apple Request for Preliminary Injunction Against Amazon’s Use of Term “Appstore” / BlackBerry App World Adds Full Support for Mac / Jailbreakme.com Offers Browser-Based Jailbreak for Recent iThings / German Officials Warn of “Critical Weakness” in iOS in Wake of Jailbreak Exploit

DigiTimes: Sources Say Apple Orders 5-Million iPad Touch Sensors for July Delivery / DigiTimes: Sources Say Pegatron Gets Orders for 15-Million New iPhones for September Delivery / GigaOm’s “The Apple Blog” Likes the September/Pegatron/New iPhone Talk / Former Flextronics Exec Pleads Guilty to Selling Apple Secrets to Hedge Fund Traders / Verizon Nixes Unlimited Data Plans for New Smartphones Effective 7 July / AT&T Offers Insurance on New iPhone Beginning 17 July / comScore: Android Widens Lead on iOS on Smartphones in U.S. / Global Equities Research: iTunes Store(s) Could Generate 13-Billion-Dollars in Revenue in 2013 / Judge Tells Apple 5 August Hearing for Samsung Bans May Be Too Soon / HP’s Jon Rubinstein Bolsters Team in Wake of Mediocre TouchPad Reviews / Jobs’ Official Biography Gets Simpler and More Elegant Title

Apple Seeds GM of Lion to Developers / Fortune: Net Applications Survey Finds iPad Competition Online “Negligible” / Business Insider Looks at How Apple is Able to Stay Ahead of Other Device Makers / Samsung Withdraws Countersuit Against Apple in U.S. Federal Court / Apple Seeks to Have Four Samsung Products Pulled from Sale in the States / USITC Preliminary Ruling Finds Apple Violating Two Patents Held by S3 Graphics / One Apple Site Apparently Hacked / YGN Ethical Hacker Group Says Vulnerability on Apple Developer Site is Patched / Adobe Cuts CS5.5 Costs in Half to Lure Final Cut Pro Users